RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY
OF NEW JERSEY
UNIVERSITY SENATE
MINUTES: Regular Meeting of the University Senate
DATE: September 16, 2011
TIME AND PLACE: 1:10 p.m., Multipurpose Room,
Rutgers Student Center, New Brunswick Campus
MEMBERS PRESENT: Akincigil, Arowolo, Atkins, Ayres,
Bagchi, Barone, Beachem, Berman, Bhanot, Bhuyan, Bittner, Bodnar,
Boikess, Borisovets, Boylan, Brennan, Buchholtz, Bunch, Cachel,
Canavan, Cashin, Clarke, Connelly, Cooper, Cosandey, Cotter, DeLisi,
Dietrich, Diner, DiVito, Dugue, Edwards, Fagley, Farris, Fontana,
Garzon, Gaunt, Gillett, Goldstein, Gomes, Goodman, Gould, Greenhut,
Gunkel, Guo, Heckscher, Henriques, Hetling, Hmelo-Silver, Hock, Honey,
Hudson, Hughes, Hwang, Hyndman, Isenburg, Janes, Jasey, Jimenez, Katz,
Kenfield, Kerr, Klein, Kukor, Lalani, Lawton, Leibman, Levinson,
Lindenmeyer, Lindgren, Loftus, Mann, Markowitz, Mazurek, McCormick,
McKay, McKeever, Messer, Midlarsky, Miranti, Mojaddedi, Molloy, Muse,
Naus, Norville, O'Connor, Otto, Ottomanelli, Panayotatos, Pandey,
Patel, Paterno, Pavlovic, Pirrello, Potenza, Pottick, Pritchett, Puhak,
Quiles, Rabinowitz, Rosario, H. Roth, Sahi, Saito, Sanghvi, Schorr,
Schrire, Schurman, Schwartz, Shafer, Shah, Shapiro, Sheflin, Sills,
Simmons, Singh, Sokolov, Solomon, Sorensen, Spasojevic, Spellmeyer,
Spiegel, Stauffer, Stein, Stillwagon, Szatrowski, Taghon, Tancs,
Thompson, Toney-Boss, Tu, Uzuegbu, Wagner, Wang, Wilson, Winkler,
Winterbauer, Wolf, Yabut, Yoon, Zaki
EXCUSED: Alizadeh,
Barraco, Chant, Dighton, Figueira, Ganesh, Grabosky, Harris,
Lynch, McLean, Minsky, Minucci, Mullen, Niederman, Newman,
Oliver,
Schantz, Suplee, Vodak, White, Zimmerman
ABSENT: Bubb, Buch, Caprio, Clear, Coppola, Creese,
Dougherty, Farmer, Fehn, Gabriel, Gao, Garcia, Grant, Greenberg,
Gurfinkiel, Gwira, Hoffman, Holzemer, Holzer, Jerome-D'Emilia, Lewis,
Li, Miller, Milliman, G. Roth, Schement, Smith, Trammell,
Violette, Yeagle
ATTENDANCE SUMMARY:
Faculty: Of 99 total: 73 present (74%),
15 excused (15%), 11 absent (11%); Students:
Of 39 total: 33 present (85%), 1 excused (2%), 5
absent (13%); Administrators: Of 35 total: 20
present (57%), 1 excused (3%), 14 absent (40%); Alumni: Of 6
total: 5 present (83%), 1 excused (17%), 0 absent ; Staff:
Of 13 total: 10 present (77%), 2
excused (15%), 1 absent (8%)
View Senate
Attendance Record for this year
PRESIDING OFFICER: Paul
Panayotatos, Chairperson
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT: Chairperson Panayotatos called the meeting
to order at 1:13 p.m. He welcomed everyone to the Senate meeting, and
summarized some Senate history, as well as past accomplishments and
planned activities. He introduced Senate standing-committee chairs,
calling upon each to rise and make brief statements about their
committee plans for the coming academic year.
PRESIDENT'S
ADDRESS QUESTION-AND-ANSWER PERIOD PROCEDURES: Chairperson
Panayotatos's report outlined the procedure for the question-and-answer
period which was to follow President McCormick’s Annual Address
to the Community. The procedure, intended to enable as many community
members as possible to participate in the process, allowed anyone
present to pose a question, with no preference given to Senators, but
questions were limited to one per person, and to one minute or less,
with no follow-up.
PRESIDENT’S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO
THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY:
Chairperson Panayotatos introduced President McCormick, who took the
lectern. President McCormick then presented his Annual Address to the
University Community, the theme of which was “A Great State Must Have a Great
State University.” Text and video of the address
are online at http://president.rutgers.edu/address11.shtml.
A question-and-answer period followed,
during which President McCormick responded to questions from Senators
and other members of the Rutgers
community on a wide range of issues.
ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business before the
University Senate, Chairperson Panayotatos adjourned the meeting at
3:25 p.m.
Ken Swalagin
Secretary of the University Senate